Regulator drops plan to split up Safaricom

Communications Authority Director General Francis Wangusi in Nairobi on December 4, 2017. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU | NMG

A revised competition report by the telecommunications industry regulator has dropped the controversial proposal calling for the splitting of Safaricom #ticker:SCOM into separate business units, drawing the ire of its rivals.

Airtel, Kenya’s second-biggest telecommunications company after Safaricom, hit out at the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA), saying failure to finalise the dominance debate and watering down of the report was hurting the smaller operators.

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